CONTENTS

JUNE 25, 2002

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Shortz, Susan, president, Halt Environmental Lead Pollution (HELP)

Prepared statement

OPENING STATEMENTS

Clinton, Hon. Hillary Rodham, U.S. Senator from the State of New York

Crapo, Hon. Michael D., U.S. Senator from the State of Idaho

Jeffords, Hon. James M., U.S. Senator from the State of Vermont

Specter, Hon. Arlen, U.S. Senator from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

WITNESSES

Allard, Hon. Wayne, U.S. Senator from the State of Colorado

Prepared statement

Brian, Danielle, executive director, Project on Government Oversight

Prepared statement

Martin, Robert, former EPA National Ombudsman

Prepared statement

Nadler, Hon. Jerrold, U.S. Representative from the State of New York

Prepared statement

Tinsley, Nikki, Inspector General, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Brief, Mary Mosley v. Christine Todd Whitman

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Prepared statement

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Responses to additional questions from:

Senator Crapo

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Senator Jeffords

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Prepared statement

Prepared statement

Wood, David, Director, Natural Resources and Environment, U.S. General

Accounting Office

Zanetti, Katherine, facilitator, Shoshone Natural Resources Coalition

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ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

Letters:

Canales, Suzie, Citizens for Environmental Justice, Corpus Christi, TX

Evans, Robert D., American Bar Association

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Huysman, Kristen, Environmental Law Society, Vermont Law School
Koke, Cindy, Denver, CO

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Malinowski, Heather, Secretary, Pi-Pa-TAG, Inc.

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Matsunaga, Robin K., President, U.S. Ombudsman Association

Oja, Carrie, chairman, Community Leaders for EPA Accountability

Now.

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Memorandums:

Community Leaders for EPA Accountability Now (CLEAN), Coeur

d'Alene, ID

Devine, Tom, Government Accountability Project

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Reports:

A Partial Approach to Clean-up: EPA Mishandles Superfund Investiga-

tions, June 25, 2002

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(III)

Reports-Continued
American Bar Association, Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory
Practice, Section of Dispute Resolution, Section of Business Law, Sec-
tion of State and Local Government Law, Government and Public Sec-
tor Lawyers Division, Senior Lawyers Division, Commission on the
Legal Problems of the Elderly, National Conference of Administrative
Law Judges, Standing Committee on Environmental Law..

Statements:

Hardy, Rogers and Antonia M., Harrison, ID

Hodge, Lucinda, director, Alberton Community Coalition for Environ-
mental Health, Missoula, MT

Miller, Barbara, Siler Valley People's Action Coalition, Kellog, ID
Scholl, Ron, Missoula, MT

Smedley, William A., executive director, GreenWatch, Inc.; board mem-
ber, Pennsylvania Environment Network; chairman Legal Committee,
AIR

Text of Bill, S. 606, A bill to provide additional authority to the Office of Ombudsman of the Environmental Protection Agency

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